Making Change Possible

This week is going to be an exciting week.  We are planning on going on a field trip this Wednesday, October 10.  We will be venturing down the road to Rancho Penisquitos, which is known for its rich local history.  It is the site of one of the first Mexican adobe house ranch estates.  We will need to have parent volunteers shuttle children and help chaperon. Please use the following link to sign up. Field Trip

In humanities this week, we are pre-writing our personal autobiographical narratives.  Our stories are focusing on a time in our lives when we solved a problem.  We are also studying different uses of figurative language.  Students have been creating posters about metaphors, personification, similes, hyperbole, characterization, and alliterations.  We will be using these literary devices to create a poem that will go along   with the collage that the students have already created.

Also this week we are going to create a family survey questionnaire. This fulfills the "Where do I come from?"component of our My Portal project.  Please take some time this week to answer the questions with your child. The students will be compiling this information into a paragraph about what they learned about their family heritage.

I am please to announce that my book, The Cartoon History of the United States, has arrived!  We will be reading the book for guided reading. Students will be generating questions about the reading, finding unknown words, and writing summaries.  I have used the book in the past and found that my students really enjoyed learning about history this way.